We can't remember things from our future

I carefully returned the files to my mother’s drawer and left the house with one objective: find Christina Georgia.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.